Salim Benghalem

Salim Benghalem (1981-) was a member of the Islamic State.

Biography
Salim Benghalem was born in 1981 in Cachan, Val-de-Marne, France to a family of Sunni Muslims. He joined the Islamic State in the Syrian Civil War, and he was believed to have been one of the captors of French journalists Didier Francois, Nicolas Henin, Edouard Torres Elias, and Pierre Torres Elias, who were released in April 2014. He became a member of the Islamic State's police and participated in executions by the group, and he was in contact with Mehdi Nemmouche, the perpetrator of the Jewish Museum of Belgium shooting. In 2015, he was believed to have been one of the masterminds of the November 2015 Paris attacks.